“An unexamined life is not worth living” -Socrates
This Totem is a tribute to one of history's most influential philosophers, Socrates. When we think of ancient Greece, we immediately think of Athens, and the people who built many of the foundational aspects of our world today. Known as the ‘Big Three” Aristotle, Plato and Socrates who were very influential in starting this movement and bringing it to the rest of the world. Socrates was the teacher pf Plato, who then became the mentor of Aristotle.
Socrates did not write his philosophical texts, all knowledge related to him is entirely dependent on the writings of other people of the time period. Works by Plato, Aristotle and other st...